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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13
FROM LIFE TO DEATH

Is but n moment if rheumatism or neuralgia
strikes the heart. These diseases are the
most painful and the most dangerous of any
to which humankind is liable. They fly from
one part TO another without moments
warning. and liniments and other outward
applications are in themselves dangerous.
because they are liable to drive the disease
to some vital organ and cause instant death.
rheumatism and neuralgia are diseases of
the blood, and can only be reached by a
remedy which will drive from the blood the
dangerous acids. Such remedy is Athlo-
phoros. 1t has been thoroughly tested and
is a safe, sure cure.
George Schneider, employed at the sash
factory of Huttig Bros Manufacturing
company, MuScatine, Ia. says: About
year ago my wife was afflicted with both
rheumatism and neuralgia. She had used
numerous remedies with no apparent relief.
Having learned of some OF the cures ef-
fected by AtllOphoroS. bought some for
her. | think it was four or five bottles she
used since which time she has been en-
tirely we'll of both rheumatism and neural
gla. AS she was very great sufferer, 1
consider Athlophoros a very efficient rem
edy in curing such a case"
w. C.. McClain. clerk for Smith & Bone
Slccl. uIuSBlSlS, atidullC, Id, says. Il
have tried everything l know of for my
rheumatism, but nothing did me any good
until l used Athlophoros. 1t was in July.
1884. l was confined to the house Tor over
month and was obliged to use crutches.
l suffered with this rheumatism for about a
year. Finally L decided to give Athlo-
phoros a trial, thinking it would be no bet
ter than the medicines / had used. l felt
change after had used bottle. l con-
tinued using it and have not had any rheu-
matism since"
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought of the druggist the Athlopho-
! ros company, 112 Wall street. New York.
will send either carriage paid) on receipt
of regular price. which is 81 per bottle for
Athlophoros and so cents for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia,
indigestion. weakness, nervous debility,
diseases OF women, constipation, headache.
impure blood, etc., Athlophoros Pills are
uneQualed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13
BEAUTY AND ATHLETICS.
How Fashionable Women Devote
Themselves to the Latter 10 obtain
the Former.

How Fashionable Women Devote
Themselves to the Latter 10 obtain
the Former.
Can You imagine woman seated on her
chair at home and pOking one cheek with
one finger by the hour day after day, asks a
writer in the New York sun. Can you
easily picture to yourself another woman
working her lower jaw necessarily and most
vigorously an hour or two every day for 4
month? Yet this is done by our sisters, and
our cousins. and our auntS all over town.
The reason they do this is that they are not
satisfied with their faces. This one has a
depression in her cheeks, and that is what
she is poking with her finger She eXpe cts
SO to strengthen the muscles in her cheek as
TO make it full and plump and round, as it
ought to be, and used to De i'll her baby
hood. The other one is working her lower
Jaw in order to develop the lower part of
her face which she thinks is not round and
cWving enough: OF, if she is married, she
waits her face to look as well as the plump
est among her lady friends. There is a
little book in current use which gives the
ladies the necessary instructions for pOking
this part of the face and working the other,
and it is this little book that is giving our
women this novel employment.
This manual for encouraging the vanity
of women also gives instruction in the art
of developing the arms and necks and busts
of the SEX but what it proposes for them
TO do is only, after all. what they are doing
and have been doing always for their own
improvement. A man exercises for his
health-a woman for her looks. The
growth of fashionable life. with the attend
ant increase of the use of low-neck dresses,
has set many and many hundreds of women
who want to shine in society to racking
their brains and busying their muscles to-
ward improving their appearance. Many
women who want to wear low ball and dim
ner dresses find they have bothersome bones
in their neckS which are quite useful in
their way, but have no right to expose
themselves just where fair. smooth sur
face is desired. TO sink these out of sight
amid the fulneSs of a fashionable neck or
chest is what is giving many a pugilist and
fencing master and gymnasium manager
wealth and business just now.
The women are doing more, perhaps. to
make themselves healthy and pretty than
they ever did or had a chance to do in
modern times before. Horseback riding,
rowing, swimming walking. exercising in
gymnasiums, sparring. playing games that
strengthen muscles and develop forms. and
studying hygiene-with as little study and
as much fun as possible-are some of their
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13
Flowers I'm Fashion and Arr,

F1OVpcTS hh anu ARR
The daisy is Il favorite flower in silver Jew.
eiry
The daisy pin which Mrs. Cleveland wears
has petals made Of small, but very clear white
diamonds, while the yellow center is repre-
scented by superb yellow diamond
A sunflower pin is of gold, with a brownish
diamond.
Morning-glories will grow from the seed
and blossom in two months after planting
If there is anything more beautiful than the
morning-glory in su INNER it is the morning.
glory in winter in u bay window as a climber
Single dahlias are greatly sought after by
people who go by fashions in flowers The
seed of these should be sown in boxes by
March, and the plants will come into flower
| as early as if the plant were grown from tu-
| bers.
| The new zebra Zinnia is brilliant in coloring.
Many of the laLts produce flowers striped in
orange, crimson, pink, yellow, violet, rose
| and scarlet.
| Callas will grow in water If their roots are
| in good, strong soil, but If this plan Is tried
the plants must be given very high temper
| ature.
prett7 tea gown Of dark pansy plush has
pale pink satin front with velvet pansies
appliques.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13

devices. Why, the young women are UNI
dergoing revolution! Their mothers don't
Know what to make of them-thOugh can
dor cOmpelS the admission that great
many of the mothers are paying as much
attention to the subject as any one-eXcept
that they may not all have the new science
down as finely as that lily of the stage who
is described in the provincial papers as TAX
ing cold bath every morning to preserve
her health, washing her face with cold
cream instead of water so as to avoid
wrinkles, and walking like a postman to
keep herself muscular.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13

china-blue ribbon deep blue silk, with pure
white lace and little panels Of salmon pink,
deep brown, with rose -colored gauze and
black touched with crimson silk tissue are
among the many combinations.
There are number of new shades in the
spring importations of hosiery, a peculiar
delicate shade of yellow, apple blossom
green and India-red being among the most
noticeable. These are generally combined
with black and are in large square and dla-
monds, polka dots and long stripes. Among
the most exquisite white hosiery for bri-
dial toilet are those made of heavy cream
silk of a close webbing. hand embroidered
OH the instep and about the ankle in orange
blossoms, the white of the bud and the soft
green OF the small leaf being exactly repro
duced.
Crystal beads and iridescent PASSENGER
terie are seen on some inn o "a ions o.
hosiery, but it is SO difficult to get them SO
that the beads will not come in contact with
the slipper that they will not be popular.
Spring mntfs made of lace and soft silk
in the form of tulips and violets are among
the seasonable fancies. They are very little
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13

what the Pocket Of un Old Dress
Coat Contained and the story Re-

Coat Contained and the story Re-
vemleh.
Christian Union.
In the inside pocket of the dress coat [
found woman'S kid glove that had once
Eeen white, but was yellow and spotted
with age, and three letters tied together
with a dingy white ribbon. l united the
ribbon and opened them here at my desk
at home. The ink was faded and the let
tiers so worn in their folds that they almost
fell to pieces They must have been folded
and unfolded great many times They
were written in a feminine hand, at time
when such writing was in small and run
ming character much different from the
stiff, irregular. and somewhat unreliable
scrawl which is in vogue to-day; and they
bore SO old date that | am violating no
confidence in giving them in full:
Troy. June s, 1S37.-Dear John: / know
how sad and sorry you must feel, because
know how wretched 1 am. And we were so
happy. If it could only have been as we
hoped and prayed 1t is very hard to think
that this can in any way be for the best: but
| suppose we ought to think so. Perhaps we
may think so some time when we talk it all
over together, and feel the happier be cause
we have known how sad separation is. 1t
would be worse dear, if / had lost faith in
you or you had in me. That would be the
worst o, if could only see you and tell you
that L love you. love you! cannot write,
l am so miserable an unhappy, and want
you so much.
/ Nor need 1 write-to tell the tale
My pen were dOubly weak.
All. what can idle words avail
Unless the heart could speak?
By day or night. in veal and woe,
That heart, no longer Free
Must bear the love it cannot show,
And, silent, ache for thee. C.
Troy, June IA. 1S37-Dearest John: l
| have been trying to imagine the town as you
describe it, so that [ might fancy that were
| with you. Oh, if j could be. 1t is so lonely.
l watch at the window until it seems that I
| must see you. Down by the bridge / found a
place that you cut with your knife when we
waited there one night and tried to plan for
the future. l leaned my cheek against the
notch in the post and kissed it and cried when
| thought how far away you were and how
! long it might be before might see you again.
| But 1t wont be long, will it? And you will
/ lind walks that we can take when I come to
| you. l am glad there is river. We can
row on that as we used to. When we talk it
all over by and by this won't seem anything.
Will it? But it is very hard to bear now
Martha is very kind. OF course l can't say
much to her, but it's Il consolation to know
that she cares. Tell me more about the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13
HOW TO DRESS.
a Vital Matter Which Few WON Ell
Thoroughly Understand

The healthful dress for women must be
made absolutely without ligatures or bands
says the Philadelphia News. This is i'm
perative from the very arrangement of
woman's internal organization and her
uses in nature. Here we have all tho COM
pick vital manufactures that supply life to
muscles. nerves and brain. Just at the
point most compressed by the corsetli e
the most important organs of the BODY. i'm,
pOrtant alike to well-developed wonlanhood
and responsible motherhood. ANY pres
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13

Norristown Herald.
When young man walks down the
street in the cleaning between two girls
of sweet II. or whereabouts, it is easy
to tell which one of the damsels is
mashed on him." as they say in the clas-
sizes. She snuggles up to him much more
closely than the other, aud the latter doesn't
look up into his face with sort of dying
sheep expression every two or three sec
OndS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13
SURE ENOUGH.

I kissed her hand. She slapped my cheek,
The blow came sharp and quick.
Her eyes flashed fire. She did not speak,
My blood boiled hot and thick.
"what do you mean?" | asked, enraged:
Were all alone here, and
You know quite we'll that we're engaged,
Then why not kiss your hand!
~ do deteSt Il man." she snapped,
.'Who'll kiss my finger tips.
In loves ways one should be more apt
Else what's the use of lipS?'
-Someryille Journal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13
POEMS IN SPRING MUFFs.
Airy Fancies i'm SILK and Lace Com
ing with the DnflOdils.

Airy Fancies i'm SILK and Lace Com.
ing with the DafGOdiis.
Such exquisite articles of lingerie and I'M
derwear are displayed in the shops at this
season that one is tempted to purchase
them, even at the risk of being called ex-
Jravagant Lace. silk, muslin and ribbon
ire all combined to form the most bewitch-
ng articles.
Among the newest Of these are the little
edora morning Jackets made out of surah
Xix, with fronts of lace and china silk and
1ll-putfed sleeves underneath the close
tting coat-sleeve. 1t must be a very plain
5oman indeed who would not appear TO adj
antage at a breakfast table arrayed in one.
Pale pink surah, with lace and bows OF
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13

things and intended for ornamental use.
One seen on the avenue the other afternoon
had two little bluebirds nestled on the out
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13
THE WOMAN'S GLOBE.
Modern Society Girls Devoting Them
selves to Athletics to Increase
Their Charms. ltGyi
The Gospel of Exercise of the Greatest I'm
portance to the Members of the
Gentler Sex.
How All Women Love to Celebrate
Great Occasions Occurring in
Their Lives.

Some Words to Women Regarding
Dress Viewed From the stand
point of Health
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-13

Exposing the rousseau.
1t is curious how French grandees, who
have really no advantage to win by glaring
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-20
Catching Grabs.

To catch crab properly requires
two ladies, two gentlemen, and an
English pug dog. The pug dog is to
attract the crabs. He never fails. A
New York Times man tells how it is
done at NarragansettP Pier: 1.-The crabs s
summer residence is at Pettaquamscott
River. The pug dog, with an old gold
ribbon about his neck, walks to the
edge of the bridge and barks. There
upon all the crabs in the shallow water
come scuttling up to look at him. One
of the ladies then throws line into
the water baited with the head of q
menhaden. The nearest crab slides to
the exact spot where, the head
will touch bottom and opens his arms
for a fly catch. With death-alone-
shall-part-us intensity he hangs on
while he is drawn to the surface and
lifted ont with a scoop-net. If you
catch crab by either of his last pair
Of legs he cannot bite you. There have
been men who were eager to take a
crab from net, but, like the Detroit
boy who was told there was little
lump Of gold in every mules hind hoof,
they never commit the same error
twice in q lifetime"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-20
His RrOther's Ghost,

81 don't believe in ghosts" remark
ed a prominent citizen of this place the
other day, ..but / saw something one
night while going though dark woods
on the Reynollsville road that have
never been able to account for. was
riding along on horseback, when, just
few feet in front of me, / saw a man
in the road. l turned my horse to one
side in order to let him pass, and at
that moment he stumbled and fell in
the middle of the road. The thought
at once occurred to me that it was a
drunken man, and as the night was in
tensely cold-being in the winter time
i was afraid he would lie there and
freeze to death, so concluded to help
him up and see that he reached a
place of safety. With this purpose in
view l said: "Hello. stranger, what
are you doing hereP"
''But there was no response.
spoke louder and louder, but still he
me that he had fallen into a drunken
sleep and would inevitably perish if
not taken care of. / therefore dis
mounted, lighted match, and bent
over the figure to see if | could recog-
ulZe uiS 1cdtuTcS, Wutil, " my uCCcF
astonishment, the object dissolved
from view, and there was not
the least indication that there had
been anything in the snow before me.
tried to convince myself that it was
an illusion, but was in such complete
possession of my faculties and my
thoughts had been running in such a
widely different channel that could
not believe had been deceived. And
what tended more firmly to convince
me that was not dreaming was the
fact that my horse SHE'D and paved
| and snuffe1 the air, and seemed to be
in such terror of the object that l could
scarcely hold it.
Il went on home, but in spite of the
most vigorous mental efforts was
haunted all night by strange fore
bodings of evil, and the next day re-
ceived a dispatch to the effect that my
brother, who was living in Dakota,
had been caught in blizzard the
previous night and had been frozen to
death. Subsequent inquiry developed
| the fact that his death occurred at the
same moment, allowing for difference
in time, that the apparition appeared
| to me. Since that time l have been
slightly tinged with superstition. -
Punrssttatorey (Pa.) Spirit.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-20
American and English Beauty.

If one looks into the question of re-
lative English and American beauty,
it is plain that the manifest superior
ity of American women is due part
ly to their kuowing-ah! how well
they know!-how to make the best of
themselves. One thing is painfully
common even among the best-kept
English women, and that is an un-
slightly gap in the teeth where one has
been removed-it may be front tooth
itself. They never seem to think it
necessary to have it replaced, and it
gives positive shock to an American
accustomed to the scrupulous care of
the teeth practiced by their country
women. Another difference is in the
grizzled hair of many English ladies
who don't seem to have acquired the
subtle spell of the American woman of
so or thereabouts, whose hair sudden
ly turns to a lustrous, dazzling white,
making the features twice as young
by contrast. Of course the American
ladies deny that they do anything to
tide over the grizzled period, but all
the same there are no grizzlies in
American society, and there are in
Vulnerable handsome middle-aged
women with snow-white hair and
youthful faces. This invaluable re-
suit has not yet crossed the Atlantic,
but English ladies are signing for it.
They often ask, How do the Ameri-
cans get their snow-white hair at 45P''
Which nobody has yet been found
willing to answer.-Bosto,l Transcript.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-20
Death Bed Repentance.

The owner of Il paper lay dying in
his lair, says the Boston Globe, and
the dew of death had gathered on his
brow so calm and fair; but a printer
knelt beside him as his life blood ebbed
away, and asked the dying writer if he
had word to say. The doomed man
murmured softly as he grabbed the
printers fist: "Well, at last the strug
giles over, and never will be missed;
take message and token to that
city man of mine, that all his wornout
chestnuts he had better put in brine.
There's his joke about the weather.
which he's used these many years, and
the gag about the fellow who is al
ways hunting beers, and the item he's
so fond of on the man who peddles
books, and the chestnut based on
people who go fishing at the brooks;
Just to save the papers credit and cast
no slurs on mine, I would ask him as
favor, just to put such gags in brine.
And the lie he's fond of telling of the
street-cars and the tracks, and the
ancient Joke about the man who steps
upon some tacks; and the one about
some dandy who will never pay for
| clothes, and the one on women-its
weary, heaven knows! Oh, I know I'll
slumber happy in my grave beneath
| the vine, if the man who does the city
work will put these jokes in brine.
| Tell the man who tends to business not
| to weep when / am dead, but to buy
| himself club and hit the first man on
| the head who comes in with strings of
items and requests them printed free
when the regular rates are cheaper
than they really ought to be. Tell the
foreman when he makes up not to turn
rule for me, but to simply print an
| item saving that my soul is free; for ]
want no eulogistic taffy of that kind in
mine, and think such hoary chestnuts
should be picked well in brine. Have
that gay and fresh reporter l engaged
the other day put stop to saying
sselah,' also We have come to stay
and if he should say we local you must
trample him in his gore, for YOU know
I'd never allow it in the happy days oi
yore. And the. man who comes to tel
you how to run the paper well, should
be greeted when he enters with pew
ter chestnut bell; and you'll print the
paper promptly, be the weather full o.
storms, and the foreman must be care
full, when he's making up the forms
that the beauty of the paper MAJ
through all the ages shine, ana not b
like It's neighboFs. only fit to put il
brine" The dying writer faltered, a
these simple words he spoke, and th'
printer knew directly that he wa
about to croak. So ha propped hin
up as gently as mother would he
child, but the writer's soul had wan
dered to the land of undefiled. AM
the printer sobbed little, as he CAV
one last caress, and he muttered: g
must leave him, for it's time to go t
press. Very few could beat him writ
= ing, for his writings were divine, AM
he never had to place them in. bucket
full of brine"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-20
The Medieval Materia Medica.

A ring made of the hinge of coffin
was credited with the power of reliev-
ing cramps. which also received solace
when rusty old sword was hung up
by the patients bedside. Nails driven
into an oak tree were not cure but a
preventive against toothache. A
halter which had served to hang a
criminal withal when bound round
the temples was found an infallible
remedy for headache. A dead mans
hand could dispel tumors of the glands
by st1oking the parts nine times, but
the hand of man who had been cut
down from the ga1lows-tree was, we
need not say, a remedy infinitely more
efiicacious. Some of these remedies
still exist among the superstitious poor
OF the provinces, although the FORM
ula, of course, is not now strictly ad-
hered to, the game being emphatically
hardly worth the candle. To cure
warts, for instance, the best thing was
to steal q piece of beef from the
butcher, with which the warts were to
be rubbed, after which it was to be
inferred, and as the process of decom-
position went on the warts would
wither and disappear.
The chips of gallows on which.
several persons had been hanged,
when worn in bag round the neck.
was pronounced an infailible cnre for
the ague. The nightmare, supposed.
of course, to be caused by superna-
tural agency, was banished by means
of u stone with hole in it being sus-
pended at the head of the sufferers
bed. This last remedy went by the
name of hag stone, because it pre-
vented the witches, who, of course,
wrought the mischief, from sitting on
the patients stomach. Its effect upon
these mischievous old crones was sim
gularly deterrent. The poor old crea-
lures, who could not have sat on
horse the moment he began to walk,
were credited with riding these ami
mails over the moorland at headlong
speed in the dead of night, when
better disposed and less frisky people
were wrapped in slumber. A hag
stone tied to the key of a stable door
at once put stop to these heathenish
vagaries. Times.